Is it time to put Brett Favre in Top 5 of all-time ..
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Bradshaw was a good QB on a great team.MLAM said:
Technically speaking, he was horrible. He must hold the record for most wounded duck completions.
Being a Steelers fan as a kid in those days I can tell you I loved watching him play. He usually managed to get the ball to the right guy in the big game. An important quality for a QB. He also showed how heart and brains can trump raw talent.
If you absolutely had to win the big game my top 5 :
Joe Montana
Tom Brady
Bradshaw
Aikman
Namath
From the prehistoric days there is Unitas and Starr.
This is sort of like "If you had a 5 foot sidehill putt to win the US Open who would you want to putt it for you" tpe approach. Notenecessarily the best golfer , but the best pressure player of the top guys.
Joe Montana
Tom Brady
Bradshaw
Aikman
Namath
From the prehistoric days there is Unitas and Starr.
This is sort of like "If you had a 5 foot sidehill putt to win the US Open who would you want to putt it for you" tpe approach. Notenecessarily the best golfer , but the best pressure player of the top guys.
I like that list. A couple of QB's that never seem to get much respect or fanfare are Bob Griese and Roger Staubach. They were quiet types, unlike Broadway Joe or Bradshaw. Both were really good, and wouldn't mind having either of them on my team for a must win game.train said:
Difficult to pic a QB..but so easy for golf...
..out of today's golfers??....c'mon...Tiger Woods hands down . The best golfer by far, and the best pressure golfe rby far as well.Among modern day QBs there is not such a wide gap. And to think that Brady 's name keeps coming up, deservedly so..but Peyton Manning does not. That may change after this weekend, I expect the Colts to win that game by at least 2 touchdowns
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train said:
..out of today's golfers??....c'mon...Tiger Woods hands down . The best golfer by far, and the best pressure golfe rby far as well.Among modern day QBs there is not such a wide gap. And to think that Brady 's name keeps coming up, deservedly so..but Peyton Manning does not. That may change after this weekend, I expect the Colts to win that game by at least 2 touchdowns
N2G
I agree. The black qb Terry replaced was probabbly the better qb. I recall a dateline show where they sought out that guy and he's living under a bridge in ca. When they interviewed him he still says he was better then Terry and TB even agreed. The guy was down on his luck living under an expressway bridge broke.lookingforitallthetime said:Bradshaw was a good QB on a great team.
Technically speaking, he was horrible. He must hold the record for most wounded duck completions.
I agree 100% with Teebone. Favre was a gunslinger, he too often threw into double and triple coverage. The same thing that made people love him also makes people scratch their head and wonder "what was he thinking trying to make that pass?". One of the most important duties of a QB is to take care of the football. That is one category where Brett Favre falls short. Like Sterling Sharpe would say "Brett Favre is double-agent, he's good enough to keep both teams in the game"teebone said:It's hard to compare QBs from different eras. In today's NFL, a defensive back can't as much as breathe on a wide receiver without getting a penalty.
As far as Favre is concerned....are we forgetting the fact that he recently broke the record for most career interceptions? Favre's greatest accomplishment has been his longevity. If you play long enough, you will break records. Lenny Wilkens has the more victories than any coach in NBA history, he also has more losses than any other coach. Is he one of the greatest coaches in NBA history? With only 1 title to show for it...i don't think so. Favre has been less than average for the last 3 seasons...47 TDs vs. 53 INTs with a QB rating in the 70's. In my opinion, he has hurt the franchise by waiting until the last minute every year to decide whether he wants to play for another year or hang it up. Is GB having a good year? Sure, so far so good in a very weak conference. But Favre's constant desire to try and force throws into double and triple coverage will cost this team in the long run. The thing that amazes me is that commentators will never criticize him over some of his 'bone head' throws. It's uncanny.....
No one will ever call Favre one of the smartest QBs of all time, that's for sure. Is he entertaining? Sure. Is he one of the top 5 qbs of all time? I don't think so....not even in my top 10.
You are so right teebone, all the rules seem to favor the offense and as a guy that likes watching defense in football it bothers me. I cant believe they actually eliminated the force-out this year in the NFL. For once they have made an amendment to the rules that actually favors the defense. I assume they made this amendment to relieve the officials from having to make a judgement call on whether a player would have gotten 2 feet in bounds had he not been forced out by the defensive back. I'm not so sure I"m a fan of that amendment though. The force-out now becomes a good defensive play and there just seems to be something wrong with it. Maybe its just that Ive gotten so use to the fact that it wasnt allowed before.teebone said:It's hard to compare QBs from different eras. In today's NFL, a defensive back can't as much as breathe on a wide receiver without getting a penalty.
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In the same way that T. Aikman doesn't even make the top 10, there is NO way that Farve makes the top 5.
